Announcing a new VSS user storage (vskey-stor)

We are pleased to announce a new and refreshed https://vskey-stor.eis.utoronto.ca/. The new vskey-stor provides standard VSS user sub-directories ( aka "folders" aka "buckets" ) via SSH and HTTP based protocols with the following structure:

/ut-vss: for files transferred to and/or from vCenter.
/saved: for any files previously accessed via CrushFTP.
/dot-ssh: for the user's SSH authorized_keys file.

As always, please contact vss (at) utoronto dot ca if you have any questions or comments and we will be happy to help.

If you ever experience any slowness during transfers, please take a speed test with https://vskey-stor.eis.utoronto.ca/librespeed/ and contact us.

Available storage access methods

SCP and SFTP

File transfers over SSH channels: SCP and SFTP:

scp myTestImg.ova {vss.username}@vskey-stor.eis.utoronto.ca:ut-vss/
   myTestImg.ova                                                 100%  567MB  50.2MB/s   00:11

sftp {vss.username}@vskey-stor.eis.utoronto.ca 
Connected to vskey-stor.eis.utoronto.ca.
sftp> ls
dot-ssh   saved     ut-vss    
sftp> cd ut-vss
sftp> ls
README.txt   junk.iso     
sftp> get README.txt
Fetching /ut-vss/README.txt to README.txt
/ut-vss/README.txt                            100%   84    44.3KB/s   00:00    
sftp> 
sftp> quit

More examples https://vskey-stor.eis.utoronto.ca/scp-usage.php

MinIO

MinIO provides an AmazonS3-compatible API access and interactive access via web browser:

More information here:

Deep integration with the `vss-cli`

Once upgraded with the vss-cli upgrade command to v2022.3.1 the minio module can be installed with:

python3 -m pip install 'vss-cli[stor]'

At this point, it’s enough to execute vss-cli stor ls to initialize, start and browse your vskey-stor space with the vss-cli:

If you would like to launch the minIO interface and upload your files through a web browser, the following command will launch a web browser and display the default credentials:

To upload a file from your workstation, do:

Available storage access methods

SCP and SFTP

MinIO

Deep integration with the vss-cli

Deep integration with the `vss-cli`